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the debate overhead injuries and football is kicking up a notch this morning with the news that former dallas cowboy tony dorsett has been diagnosed with signs of the incurable brain

disease known as cte. >> the disease is linked to traumatic head injuries found in more than 50 diseased nfl players. dorsett sat down with an in depth interview with espn. >> reporter: in his hall of fame career, tony dorsett experienced moments of glory. also, took blows to the head. the worst one, he says, was this violent hit in a cowboys/eagles game in 1984. >> it reminded me of a mack truck hitting a volkswagen. i believe, he just blowed me up. >> did they call that a concussion? >> no, they called that a knockout. >> dorsett says he doesn't know how many concussions he suffered during his 12 years in the nfl, but he says they were numerous, and he still deals with the consequences. >> my memory is getting worse

and worse as every day goes by. my short tempered necessary, i'm very short tempered. it gets worse. >> at his lowest moments, dorsett says he has thought about suicide. >> yeah, i've thought about crazy stuff, sort of like, why do i need to keep continue going through this. i mean, i'm too -- too smart of a person, i like to think, to take my life, but it's crossed my mind. >> reporter: neurosurge onjulian bales is part of a medical team that says it's devised a brain scan to identify signs of cte in a living person. dorsett is one of nine retired nfl players to take the test conducted at ucla. results are in for eight and all have been diagnosed with signs of cte, including hall-of-famer, joe delamolore and former all

pro leonard marshall. >> until we can diagnose it in the living, we had no hope of intervening or treating them or knowing if it was getting worse or even knowing if it's a progressive disease, but i have to stress, our numbers are small. this has to be considered preliminary data, and we look forward to accruing more examples and more testing. >> yes, i want to know if this is something that's come about because of playing football. it frustrates me. i get frustrated. i look at myself. you just in a shell. you not -- you not -- you not anthony tony dorsett. you're not him anymore. who are you? who are you becoming? people are saying, i challenge myself, who are you becoming, man?

a veggie. >> that's tough to watch. >> a hero of mine and he's not himself, clearly. >> you can see it. >> oh, yes. >> cte is a protein that surrounds the brain and it starts affecting every part of your body. you become like he said a shelf who you are. >> found in football players as young as 17 years old. scary stuff. >> hard to hear for a parent who's starting to think about putting their kids in that sport. >> no doubt about it. coming up, a big night for country music. 47th annual country music awards. ahead in the next hour, men who fathered dozens, even hundreds of children. they don't even know about them. the new ethical questions about sperm donors.

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all right. the partying winding down in nashville this morning after country music's biggest night of the year. >> last night right here on abc, the cmas paid tribute to the pioneers and the new stars that are stretching the boundaries of what it means to be country. abc's marcy gonzalez has all of the good treats. good morning, marcy. >> reporter: good morning, john and diana. they're clearing away the red carpet here, and i'll bet some of those stars are still at the after partiys celebrating a really amazing night. country music's biggest night ♪ baby you're a song, you make me want to roll my window down ♪ living up to its promise. from host brad paisley and carrie underwood to one unforgettable performance. ♪ ♪ >> after another. ♪ 6 ♪ ♪ >> the 47th annual cma awards

rocked music city with its sounds and stars bringing home top honors. the first award for single of the year going to newcomer georgia water. the duo beaten out for new artists of the year by casey muskgrave. lifetime achievement award going to kenny rogers and the stars pausing to remember the late george jones. some also lining the stage celebrating taylor swift as she became only the second artist ever to be given the pinnacle award. >> thank you. thank you. i love you. you have made me feel so special right now. thank you. >> the night closing out with female vocalist. >> miranda lambert. >> to my husband, i love you. thanks for putting up with my crap. >> and male vocalist of the year. >> yeah, come on, blake. come on over here. >> and, finally, abc's robin

roberts presenting the entertainer of the year award. >> george strait. >> there wasn't one artist who really cleaned house tonight, but talk about a power couple. this is the fourth year in a row for miranda lambert and her husband, blake shelton, winning female and male vocalist of the year. pretty incredible. john and diana, back to you. >> happy household there. marcy, thank you. brings us to our facebook question of the day. >> who is your favorite country music star and why? log on to wnnfan.com and let us know. it was quite a night. one of the highlights was kenny rogers taking the stage. we all know he can belt it out still, but just to hear it all over again. >> oh, yeah. >> the house was roaring. >> absolutely. the hosts were fantastic. they say they should host the oscars. >> you were good, too. very modest. >> you looked great as brad

paisl paisley. the hat is great. coming up. a comeback kid in basketball after an injury that could have kept him sidelined for good. back kid in basketball that could have kept him sidelined for good.

next time, what a comeback story here. louisville's kevin ware, baseball player, injured in the ncaa last year. >> what an injury. >> blew out his leg. if you're not familiar with the name, you will be familiar with the video and the images. they were all over tv. everybody wondered if this guy could ever come back. it was such a gruesome injury. you literally saw his leg snap. it was really pro found stuff. >> the bone came out. >> yes. it was horrific. he was all over the national media. well, anyway, he entered an exhibition contest now 220 days after that making his first three-point shot. >> wow. >> against pikeville. he finished with six points, four rebounds in ten minutes. folks, he's back. >> nice. >> once i hit the first shot, it took away all the jitters. ware says he expects his entire

family to be in louisville for the season opener. he says, i can build on this. i'm hoping i can get out there and show people i can be the same player before the injury. awesome young man. >> i kind of remember him saying when he got injured, i'll be back. >> a lot of people said, i hope so. >> bone sticking out of your name. one of lululemon's founders is on the hot street. in a bloomberg interview he seemed to imply that the lieu lieu lemon pants are not for every woman. you may remember that they were so sheer that they had to be pulled off of shelves. >> what's the problem? >> exactly. everybody saying the exact same thing when we did that story months ago. >> yeah, well. >> the biggest problem for lululemon. they don't carry bigger sizes. they don't restack the bigger styles. a lot of bigger woman had complained about that. then we had the sheer situations. the guy's name is chip rosen.

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this morning on "world news now," explosive allegations in the nfl. accusations of harassment and bullying among miami dolphins teammates, and new developments overnight about the alleged victim on the team. cracking down on lawmakers. a lawmaker who has made it her mission to stop sexual assault in the military. the resistance she's getting. help us. a distress call for a couple stuck in the mountains for a week. nashville's biggest night. country music's brightest stars shining at the cma awards. the laughs on stage. it is thursday, november 7th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. good thursday morning. we start this half hour with the

storm about bullying swirling around the miami dolphins. >> sources are now saying that jonathan martin, the player who went public with his alleged tormenting was considering quitting that team before he was bullied. >> meanwhile, teammates of martin and the nfl have suspended ritchie incognito claim they were friends. espn has more. >> reporter: the accusations are so explosive the nfl commissioner called for a formal investigation. were miami dolphins coaches encouraging ritchie incognito to toughen up second year offensive tackle jonathan martin. the harassment allegedly so severe espn is alleging that martin checked himself into a hospital for emotional distress. at a news conference he's saying joe philbin is defending the team. >> the team i've championed since the day i walked through the doors has been one of honesty, respect and accountability to one another. >> reporter: incognito has a

well-earned reputation. in this video circulating from a south florida sports bar, his famous short fuse is on display. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: he's accused of tormenting the junior lineman with racial slurs and texts and voicemails and the dramas dividing the nfl. >> this game is already hard enough as it is. there is no room for bullying in this league. >> reporter: former head coach herman edwards says bullying has no place in the who canner room. >> -- locker room. >> i've never asked a player to toughen someone up. >> reporter: on sports radio came in bombshell about incognito from warren sapp. >> one time he kicked me in the game and called me the n-word and i looked at him and said, oh, you want me to punch you in the mouth. >> reporter: they were surprised they had a beef. >> ritchie said, jonathan's like my little brother. i think that's an accurate depiction. he gave him a hard time, he messed with him but he was the first one there to have his back in any situation. >> reporter: tuesday incognito

shared this with a miami television station. >> i'm just trying to weather the storm right now and this will pass. >> jonathan martin's father came out saying his son is fine. >> he's a strong man. he's doing fine. >> reporter: martin is resting in california and prepping a full report for the nfl. abc news, atlanta. another troubling story with roots in the nfl. hall of fame running back tony dorsett has been diagnosed as having signs of a degenerative brain conditions. dorsett starred with the dallas cowboys starting in the late '70s. he underwent brain scans two weeks ago and they found indications of the condition that scientists say is caused by head trauma and linked to dementia. dorsett tells espn that he has experienced memory loss, depression, and thoughts of suicide. >> and when you listen to him, you listen to him talk and you can almost see it in the way he speaks. >> you remember him. you remember him from the '70s. >> i remember the tony dorsett from my childhood who i looked up to. the man who talks in the interviews isn't the man he used

to be. he says this much. cte is unbelievable. first begins to impair part of the brain that controls the emotion and memory. it eventually spreads to overwhelm the brain. the brain shrinks to half its size in chronic cte. >> it starts to affect every single part of who you are. you become a shell of the man or person you were initially. already -- you know, you talk about this being linked to the concussions in the nfl, which is what everybody is saying. already 62 concussions have been reported in this season alone for the nfl. the good thing is they're trying to take a look at these things and if it's a concussion, it's reported as a concussion. they're not saying, you were knocked out, sit down. >> something thoos give, right? >> yeah. >> two people have been killed after gunfire erupted inside a detroit barber shop. police say a group of men were playing dice, the door opened followed by a hail of bullets. it was a gruesome scene even by detroit standards. the motor city is ranked second in the nation for murders and violent crime. fallen tsa officer gerardo

hernandez is remembered. a special u.s. honor flag was flown in from texas. the flag will be used at hernandez' funeral. he was shot in the deadly rampage. tomorrow they will observe a moment of silence in honor of hernandez. a new jersey mall has reopened as police release dramatic 911 calls from the night of the shooting. thousands of terrified shoppers ran for cover at the sound of the gunshots. some of them forced to hide for hours. you can hear the fear in their voices as they called for help. >> 911. >> i'm at the garden state -- >> i can't hear you. what? >> somebody is shooting up garden state plaza. >> there's somebody shooting? >> somebody is shooting up garden state plaza right now. i'm in the bathroom. >> stay on the phone with me, sweetheart. how many people in the bathroom with you? >> three. >> are they in your store? >> yes. >> at the time they didn't know the gunman was on a suicide

mission. 20-year-old richard shoop took his own life and no one else's. there has been another arrest in this widening bribery scandal in the u.s. navy. a third individual has been arrested. commander jose luis sanchez is accused of passing on information to a singapore-based company which then used that information to overbill the pentagon. there are indications higher ranked officers could be swept up in the scandal. the military is also under scrutiny for the way it handles sexual assaults within its ranks. most rapes are going unreported. so an effort is underway on capitol hill to move prosecution of the attacks outside of the military and top commanders are up in arms. here's abc's karen travers. >> reporter: senator kirs stin gillibrand is making one final push in her fight for victims of sexual assault in the military. >> too often these brave men and women are in the fight of their life and it is not on some far off foreign soil, it's right

within their own ranks with their commanding officer as victims of horrific acts of sexual violence. >> reporter: the statistics are sobering. an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults in the military last year alone and surveys showed that 2/3 of female victims didn't report them. gillibrand's legislation would dramatically change the way the military handles these cases taking the judicial authority away from the chain of command. the top brass at the pentagon is staunchly opposed. military leaders argue they must be able to police their own ranks. >> command authority is the most critical mechanism for ensuring discipline, accountability and unit cohesion. >> reporter: but gillibrand says that hasn't worked out. >> there is no accountability because the trust that any justice is possible has been irreparably broken under the current system where commanders hold all the cards as to whether a case will move forward or not. >> reporter: arianna clay is a former marine, a naval academy graduate, and iraq war veteran.

she says she was raped by a senior marine officer in a trend in 2010. >> the retaliation was worse than the assault because it was sanctioned from the same leaders i once would have risked my life for. >> reporter: gillibrand's bill needs 60 votes to pass and right now 46 senators are on board. john and diana, a vote could come up sometime in the next three weeks. >> karen travers, thank you. it wasn't your usual trip to the terminal at chicago's o'hare airport for those on board a flight that had just arrived from new orleans. the american eagle jet rolls nose first on to a grassy area. look at that. no one was hurt on that. the 42 people on the plane had to be bussed to the terminal. this morning the olympic torch launched into space. it is headed to the international space station. it will be taken on its first ever space walk. for safety purposes the torch will not be lit while in space. probably a good idea. >> very good idea. >> here's a look at your thursday forecast, windy with

heavy downpours and mountain snow in the pacific northwest, northern rockies chilly across the plains and great lakes. scattered showers from virginia to florida and along the golf coast. >> mostly 50s and 40s across the upper midwest. 85 in phoenix. okay. time for some youngsters clearly having a great time with each other. this happened at the zoo in tacoma, washington. >> that's 2-year-old marshall dressed up as a tiger for halloween. on the other side of the glass is the zoo's six-month-old tiger can you be named callie. >> only six months. marshall does a number of runs back and forth. callie seems too eager to run along. very cute is what it says in the teleprompter. it is cute. i'm wondering what the tiger is thinking. is he thinking breakfast or is he thinking let's play. >> i have a feeling neither one of these two youngsters had any idea what was going on or the danger, the imminent danger. i think they were having a good time. >> it is very cute. >> they look like kids. >> they do sort of.

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heroes can come in any form, and for one couple in yellowstone national park, their hero roared in on a snowmobile. >> a couple spent six bone chilling days in the wilderness trapped in some heavy snow before a good samaritan set out on his rescue. abc's alex perez has the story. >> reporter: it was the wrong turn that nearly killed them. mark and chris rathke driving on to a snow packed highway near cody, wyoming, not knowing it had been closed. >> we never saw any road closed signs. we never saw any barricades. >> all of a sudden we went from a little fresh snow to about a foot, foot and a half drift. >> reporter: their car got stuck. temperatures had plummeted below zero and daylight turned to night. >> it was getting pretty cold. getting hard to stay warm. >> that was october 28th. their family reported them missing the following day. the 25-person team from the park county sheriff's department

searched for three days on the ground and by helicopter but no luck. six excruciating days they huddled together putting on every piece of clothing they had, turning the car on just once every four hours and rationing the bread, water, half a jar of jelly that they had. >> i lost it. i spent actually most of the time we were up there shaking and crying. >> reporter: with hope fading, they decided to write letters to their families. >> just letting them know that i loved them. >> reporter: never imagining it would be facebook that would save their lives. donna barnet who runs a guest ranch with her husband todd saw the local newspapers facebook posts about the missing couple and alerted him. >> i didn't get much sleep that night thinking about it and so i was up early trying to get my snowmobile ready to go so i could go -- at least go look. >> reporter: todd set out to search for these strangers on his snowmobile. just one hour later they heard the roar of his engine. >> we were like --

>> reporter: todd insists he's no hero. >> i was just out to help somebody. i ain't -- i don't want a title or anything. i just -- i was just out there to help. >> reporter: but for mark and chris, he was the miracle they hoped for. alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> he found them. >> way to go, todd. >> his wife is the one that said, get out there and find these guys. >> cowboy route out of central casting, wasn't he. he looked really cool. >> by the way, they didn't have cell phone service which is why they were penning these notes to their family. they were cold and hungry. otherwise they had done a good job of keeping themselves healthy for six days. the police say they were lucky, also, that their car had fuel. they turned on -- >> thank god they ragsed it every four hours. who would think you would be out there for six days. smart that they didn't leave it on. >> very smart. coming up, poking fun at dolly parton at the cmas. >> celebrating a superstar with a doll. that's coming up on "the

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♪ skinny ♪ so skinny welcome to "the skinny" everybody. we are starting with the talk of the town, the cmas, country music awards right here on abc last night. we have some highlights for you. here we go. we're starting off with the legend. she's a legend, carrie

underwood. we're going to get to it. the legend, george strait. he won entertainer of the night. that is the top award of the night. here's the thing though, he's won it three times. this is his third time winning it. the last time he won it was back in 1990. he was up against a lot of younger celebrities and, you know, singers, super stars, and they all went crazy when it was announced that he was the winner. i think they all kind of wanted him to win. >> yeah. >> he was a little stunned everybody else was pretty excited for him. then we're moving on to taylor swift. another highlight of the evening. she was awarded the pinnacle award. you have to realize, she's 23 years old. she's the youngest ever to win this award. she's also only the second person to get this award. >> isn't that an award you get when you're 65 in a rocking chair? >> they do something differently. the other person to win it is garth brooks who has smashed records -- >> he's the third biggest seller

of all time. >> nuts. >> right. now she is also amongst this crowd of people who have won. garth brooks, the beetles so there you have it. there she is. and then we have the host. we have to talk about the hosts because they were hill layer rid. carrie underwood, brad paisley. this is their sixth time hosting this. the experts are saying, you've got to let them host the oscars because they're so good. >> fantastic. >> cmas are the oscars of country music. they're wonderful. their comedic timing is wonderful. >> we would like to send our love tonight to dolly parton who is recovering from a little car accident a couple of weeks ago. she was treated and released from the hospital and thankfully dolly did have airbags. however, the ones in the car did not deploy. >> nicely done. >> dolly parton wasn't there because of the -- a minor fender bender. she was okay. it happened a few weeks ago. now to our very own robin roberts who was there to present the award to entertainer of the year.

>> awesome. >> who now we know is george strait. she looked incredible. >> she is buff man. >> look at those shoulders, those arms. she looks wonderful. there you have it. >> i want to go on the robin roberts exercise routine. my goodness. >> pump some iron. >> she looks fantastic. jennifer lopez is going plastic. really truly plastic. she's been immortalized in a pair of barbie dolls. the jennifer lopez world tour doll and the jennifer lopez red carpet doll. she showed a video on her instagram account. pretty cute. if you want to check it out. motion clips of her in her figure reason dancing and singing her song "get it right." >> very cool. i don't know, that's something that i would want to own. >> a doll? >> j. lo. >> we could probably get that done. we could get the diana perez "world news now" collection. >> i don't know about that. >> no? >> send you any other bashy with dark hair and claim it's me. >> now we wish we had graphics make a barbie out of you. >> yes.

if only. >> if only i can be ken. >> if only. you know what, you do look a little bit like ken. >> i've heard this before. >> i don't know about me being barbie though. >> you do look a little bit like ken. >> i have heard that before. >> i don't know about me being barbie, though. >> i think so. . >> i think so.

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stubbed. >> reporter: since then he's met three of his other donor offspring and has confirmed a dozen altogether. >> reporter: how do you know you don't have 50, 100, 150? >> i don't know. it's certainly possible. >> reporter: in fact, abc news has learned of at least five individuals who have fathered over 100 children and one individual nearly 200 children. >> it's the wild west. there's essentially no sheriff in town in this area which has become quite large, quite lucrative and is literally involved in the most intimate area of people's lives. >> reporter: some countries limit the number of children a sperm donor can have. in the united kingdom the limit is ten. children can find their biological dad and his health history. >> in england and in most of europe it's illegal to have anonymous sperm donation. >> reporter: in the u.s. for more than 2 million children who

have been donated from donated sperm, a website the donor sibling registry has been connecting them to their fathers and half siblings for the last 13 years. >> i'm brianna. >> kyle. >> nice to meet you. >> adriana and kyle found each other through that registry. >> no legal or social binding but it's half sister, that's cool. >> reporter: so far more than 10,000 connections with been made. todd whitehurst eventually met his daughter, virginia. >> we have a remarkable amount in common. >> it's surprising, really, it's like we're related or something. >> reporter: one more version of the modern american family. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. here's a number for you. 30 to 60,000 children born in the u.s. every year are born via artificial insemination. >> staggering figure. you look at that one woman there.

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good morning, i'm john muller. >> i'm diana perez. here are some of the top headlines we're following on "world news now." the nfl says there's no deadline by which its investigation of the miami dolphins bullying case must be completed. some teammates of jonathan martin and his alleged tormenter say they were actually friends. tony dorsett diagnosed with signs of a degenerative brain condition that is being linked to head trauma. dorsett tells espn that he suffers from memory loss, depression and has had thoughts of suicide. and more former members of the military could soon be making drinks at starbucks. the coffee chain says it will hire at least 10,000 veterans and military spouses to work in its stores, warehouses, and in

leadership roelsz. from surprises at the 47th annual cma awards, as they pay homage to the pioneers of the past and trail blazers. it's all coming up. those are our top stories on thursday, november 7th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. we can't wait to get to throw back thursday, which is today, including some highly promoted foods that are no longer on the shelves. >> probably for good reason. >> you're not going to have to wonder why. >> there was one in that list that we thought, bring it back, remember? >> i think you're right. there is actually a couple, i think, that, you know, if they were on the shelf, i might pick them up, but a couple. >> one of the foods is purple and that isn't going to make it. >> the only thing i'll do with purple is wear it. >> there you go. you're wearing it today.

>> exactly. let's get started. we begin this half hour with the troubled website. an official is leaving for a job in the private sector. >> it's not clear whether tony tring trinkle is leaving on his own or he's being pushed out. here's abc's andy field. >> reporter: secretary kathleen sebelius promised congress the affordable care website will work better. pat roberts says his kansas voters are losing more than they'll gain with the new law. >> in fact, more people are losing their insurance than are signing up on the website. >> reporter: the health and human services secretary says many losing their policies wind up getting a better deal with the affordable care act and with tax subsidies will pay less. she's admitted registering and applying on line hasn't worked well yet. t healthcare.gov has been a

miserably frustrating experience for far too many of these for far nacceptable.these i am focused on fixing it. >> reporter: not good enough for angry republican s who accused her of misleading americans about the program. senator demandihe resign. the say staff oun he's leaving his post focus direct enrollment t cons experience and those upgrades s between now and the end of noveer. andfield, abc news, washington. >> seems sometimes vice president biden just can't get it right. case in point, biden put in a call to congratulate the new mayor of boston. marty ross. there was a problem. the guy on the other end of the phone was not the marty walsh who had been elected. biden launched into his who had been elected. biden launched into his congratulation, marty, you did

i'm not that marty walsh. a u.s. foreign officer could face a lon prison sentence for ry. prosecutors say michael sustack rubber stamped fraudulent visa applications. he agreed to forfeit any profits from the crime including nine properties in thailand. scientists say they have evidence suggesting that the late palestinian leader yasir arafat was poisoned. he died under mysterious circumstances at a french military hospital back in 2004. his widow and palestinian officials have long accused israel in having a hand in his death. the new report says soil and bone samples had high levels of radioactive pallone yum. michael skakel still remains in jail. the judge did open a legal door which could allow skakel to try for bail again as soon as next week.

closing arguments could begin tomorrow in the trial of a utah doctor accused of killing his wife. to from murder. brandy hick. saying i apologize about your wife and he goes, i'm glad [ bleep ] she's dead. >> reporter: face to face with a former inmate he spent time with behind bars, dr. martin mcneill showed no emotion as jason poirier admitted he killed his wife. >> did he say he murdered his wife? >> he didn't say it like that but he said i'm getting away with murdering my wife. i sat back and kind of chuckled thinking he was lying. >> reporter: he's accused of gi wife a deadly dose of prescription painkillers while havi afa wit gypsy willis, but the defense claims michelle died of heart problems in the bathtub. poir yeah is the fourth inmate to take the stand. mcneill told them he did not kill his wife. >> he just mentioned that they couldn't prove it, that medication she was taking, giving him, was prescribed. >> reporter: mcneill's attorneys pointed out his history of theft

and lying. >> you stole the ammunition? >> yes. >> you lied to police? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: as the defense preaches to call their first witness. >> reporter: many of the inmates say mcneill did use derogatory language to describe his wife and he exchanged letters with his miss stress while behind bars. a group of angel investors in silicon valley have kicked off a challenging competition inspired by the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school much the person who comes up with the best way to make guns safer will get a grand prize of $1 million. some of the parents sought out the investors for help believing technology could play a role in solving the gun epidemic. >> there's everything from making the ammunition smarter. there's other stuff about how you grip a gun. there's stuff that looks at biometrics on the fingerprint itself. and a host of other solutions. and we're curious to see what else that we haven't heard of yet. >> one parent supporting the

competition says she wants sandy hook to be remembered as a place where real change began. a sign of the times. all but a handful of blockbuster stores will be closed by early january. that all changed with the rise of on demand and others namely netflix. the store closures will put 2800 people out of work. 50 franchise stores will remain open. if you're watching us on your coffee break and you're drinking coffee, you might want to set it aside for a couple of hours. here's why. scientists say the best time to have the coffee is 10:30 a.m. that's the time the hormone cortisol is starting to wear off a bit. having a gilt of caffeine. i don't care what scientists say, i want the coffee 15 minutes after i mute my feet on the bed. >> i want that coffee 15 minutes ago. i always am in desperate need of a cup of coffee.

this research obviously based on people who have a 9 to 5 regular schedule. >> every time we do coffee stories, you can't drink coffee because you're pregnant. >> i like the taste of coffee so i do decaf. i can't do it at 10:30. i can't do it 15 minutes ago. >> hang in there. your coffee and red win are coming. >> almost. moving onto the weather now. thursday weather. a wet day in the northeast. light snow around the great lakes. a few sprinkles from south texas across the southeast. wet and windy in the north. light mountain snow from washington to montana. a windy morning across parts of southern california. just shy of 80 in los angeles. 40s across the upper midwest and mostly 60s along the east coast. no one looking forward to the back breaking task of clearing their snow covered driveway in the bitter cold. >> now there is a solution. making it our favorite story of the day. take a look at this contraption. it was created by some high school seniors in southern wisconsin.

it's a snobot. it will shovel snow for you while you get to stay warm inside. >> i want to see it work on two feet. >> the students used the base of a wheelchair and it's all done by remote control. >> check this out. they're getting a $10,000 grant to improve on this. because you saw it and you want it, right? >> it looks cool. >> i saw it and i want it. >> crash into other snow plows and drive around like a monster truck. >> i want it to plow my driveway. here's the thing, you get that thing started at -- if you leave the house at 6:00 in the morning, you get it started at 5:30. by the time you go out there -- >> like the valium cleaner. >> like the roomba. >> like the roomba. let's extend to to lawn be mowers. >> we had a million dollar idea. >> driving cars. maybe the car to drive ourselves. they're working on that already. auto pilot planes. >> i wouldn't get on that. >> they have that already? >> auto pilot.

>> you still need peek in the cockpit. i want to get on a plane that does it all by itself. >> coming up, paying tribute to some of the most highly promoted food products ever. that's why it's a throw back thursday, they're off the market. one of the hottest workouts in the country and a warning for parents. is this too rigorous for kids. later, industry inside. the scoop on the award winning country music stars. ♪ no one in between ♪ how can we be wrong ♪ sail away with me to another world ♪ ♪ and we rely on each other >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by consumer cellular.

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♪ ♪ let's get it started ♪ let's get it started getting it started increasingly are young kids in one of the hottest new extreme exercise trends. >> yesterday we told you about pregnant women who were pushing themselves to the limit with cross fit workouts. >> now the craze and the controversy is extending to children as young be as 3 years old. here's abc's paula faris. ♪ >> reporter: it's a military style workout and among the extreme exercise fanatics, all the rage. >> lock it out over top. >> reporter: but now cross fit, the program that's thriving adults on pushing adult participants to the brink. >> cross fit. >> reporter: is available for kids. >> slither like lizards all the way down. >> reporter: and has some wondering is this safe for kids? cross fit for adults is hard core. is cross fit for kids equally as hard core? >> no. it's scaleable. we teach the movement and then

we allow that individual's ability to come through. >> reporter: aaron von frolich runs cross fit in new york city. one of 900 cross fit programs in the u.s. >> as long as there's proper coaching, proper guidelines and we're teaching them basic proper movement, then there's no chance of this becoming a problem. >> reporter: but pediatric sports medicine specialist paul stricker says cross fit training can be too intense for some kids. >> strength training has its benefits but it has risks. if you have the wrong child at the wrong time with the wrong amount of experience and the wrong amount of supervision it can be quite risky. >> reporter: our intention is to make children safer in their daily lives. such as lifting a backpack or around the field of play when they have to run, cut, jump, etc. the parents we talked to weren't thrilled. >> what type of a difference have you noticed in your boys in the last month and a half. >> i think the focus. i think the energy and just -- they just love it. it's just incredible.

>> in pe we run faster. >> you're running faster in p.e. now? >> reporter: coach eric's daughter is in a class for 8 to 12-year-olds. >> you know you'll have a lifetime of great habits. she's doing it for herself. she enjoys it. it's every parent's dream. >> what do you think? >> looks like gym class to me. >> gym class, right. if you live in the city and you don't have access to green, open space, it's a great way to get the kids moving. but if your kid's doing the traditional kids type stuff doing what we did, running around, playing sports, running bases. >> yes, there are alligator crawls, none of that looks like it's too excruciating to me. >> at least they're moving. >> right. >> can't be a terrible thing. coming up, a big night for country music. >> some surprises at cmas and tributes to both the young and the old when we come back.

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hd-34. hd-3. hd-3. hd-3. ♪ islands in the stream, that is what we are ♪ ♪ no one in between ♪ how can we be wrong country classic there with legend kenny rogers. >> one of the huge performances at last night's cma awards watched by millions here on abc. music and media consultant bruno delgranado has his insider insight into the show. kenny rogers still has it, bruno. it's undeniable. >> he certainly does, diana. he certainly does. this song is over 30 years old.

it still sounded fresh. and jennifer nettles from sugar land did a pretty good dolly parton duet with him. he was good. >> no doubt about that. bruno, take us through the biggest awards of the night. first, let's go with entertainer of the year. >> well, the entertainer of the year award went to king george. george strait. he's had 60 number one hits. he's been nominated 81 times. won 22 times. it was obvious it was his time to shine tonight with the biggest award of the night. he deserved it. he's a generous man. he's helped everybody in that room somehow with their career. just, like i said, very well-deserved award. >> another big one from the night as well. album of the year. >> yes. album of the year went to blake shelton based on a true story. his biggest selling album, his last album, that is. blake is one of the coaches on "the voice." he's one of the most popular entertainers around because of the vois and his country career. big winner.

he won the album of the year and male vocalist of the year. that's another big one for him. >> i'm telling you what, that family had a good night. big night for blake's wife. >> miranda. this is the fourth time she wins female vocalist of the year tying reason ba mcintyba mcinty. they are nashville's new power couple. >> they've been at it for a long time. they deserve the wins. taylor swift got the pinnacle awa award. she's 23 years old. >> can you believe this. this is the 47th edition of the cmas. they've only handed the pinnacle award once before tonight. it was to garth brooks in 2005. keep in mind, garth brooks is the third biggest selling recording artist of all time behind the beetles and elvis presley. taylor wins the pinnacle award. the album was successful. 6 million copies. over 1.5 concert tickets. she's touring globally. you think, what is going to happen when she turns 30? >> yeah, right.

>> no way of knowing. >> good point. let's talk about the performance that maybe totally brought down the house in your opinion. >> oh gosh. the tear jerker. alan jackson and george strait, tribute to george jones who passed away earlier in the year doing one of his top songs "he stopped loving her." it was back in 1980. it was a tear jerker. social media, everyone said that was one of the highlights of the evening. >> one of the highlights of the evening was throughout the entire show was watching those two host. they are incredible. carrie underwood and brad paisley. it's like they were born to do this. they're amazing. >> they are incredible. this is the sixth time they've hosted the cmas. they are naturals. they're great hosts. tremendous performers. they both also performed. like i said, this show is called the oscars of country music. if the real oscars were ever to get smart, they would choose these two to host the show. >> it's undeniable. they are hilarious. together their comedic timing is

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♪ ♪ ♪ all right. it's time now for our throw back thursday, and a look back at the fun and nostalgic and the downright embarrassing. >> this morning we're focusing on foods that many of us loved that you can't buy anymore. first one, a snack food that you probably all recognize. take a look at the commercial. >> the keebler elves make potato skins for a flavor with whole baked potato appeal. >> wow. blast from the past. keebleres answer to the pringle. no dark side on that. >> that's, by the way, the only reason we're eating the

pringles. tato skins aren't there. >> speaking of things, nothing what they appear to be. chef boy rdees meatballs. >> 12 meatballs is not something you market. the less the better, i think. we all know ketchup is red but that changed in 2000 when heinz introduced this. there was a tie in to a shrek movie. heinz sold 25 million bottles. >> another fad that didn't last was clear colored foods. in 1992 pepsi introduced crystal pepsi. clearness was equated with purity and health. this was equated with plummeting sales that lasted less than a year. >> a movie tie in here. hi-c. fluorescent green color in the

nod to the ectoplasm in ghost busters. you're enjoying motts. >> this is our answer. >> which is probably a good thing. >> vitamin c. 100% juice that i will drink over the green stuff. who can forget these things? >> hostest ho hos. >> it was vitamin fortified. now they put that a mile away from the labeling. they said it was healthy. ho hos were discontinued for years. we have good news. they're back. but, this is not a ho ho. this is a chocolate twinkie called a dreamy. >> it looks delicious. facebook question of the day, what food products taken off the market shelves do you miss the most? log on to our facebook page, wnnfans.com and let us know what you think. >> i think the answer is the ho ho for me. >> the ho ho? >> i miss the ho

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good morning, on "world news now," major league investigation. the aggressive move by the nfl after serious allegations of harassment among miami dolphins teammates. major developments from the league and the team. physical diagnosis. nfl hall-of-famer tony dorsett opens up about his serious injuries from the football field. >> it reminded me of a mack truck hitting a volkswagen. i mean, he just blew me up. >> what doctors say about dorsett's future in this espn exclusive. and critical clues doctors discover an important test in detecting a very misunderstood disorder in children. >> the earlier we diagnose, the earlier we intervene, the better the long-term outcome. >> searching for signs of autism

in a newborn's eyes. it's thursday, november 7th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. and good morning. also this half hour, by the way, we're going to take you to nashville for all the big winners of the cmas. it was an exciting night. >> good show. the hosts were fantastic. really good to watch. >> and a lot of interesting winners this year. some young winners getting some old awards. very interesting. >> kenny rogers doing his thing. that was awesome. all right. we're going to begin this half hour with the latest in the miami dolphins bullying case. jonathan martin was considering quitting football before leaving miami a among the current allegations. >> they claim martin and his alleged tormenter ritchie incognito were friends. more from abc's scott goldberg. >> reporter: ritchie incognito is speaking out on the hazing

controversy since he was suspended by the miami dolphins. wsbn caught up with him previously in a parking lot in weston, florida. >> there's an allegation that you left voicemails on jonathan martin's voicemail. what do you have to say about those? >> you know, no comment right now. we're just going to kind of weather the storm and that's it. >> reporter: incognito, who calls himself the beast on twitter, has been suspended indefinitely by the dolphins, but he's also being investigated by the players' association and the nfl for allegedly bullying his teammate, second year linemen, jonathan martin. >> he will not play for that team again. the question is whether he'll ever be allowed to play in the nfl again. >> reporter: espn has discovered that incognito tormented martin with a string of racist voicemails and threatening text messages saying he would kill him. martin apparently reached his breaking point last week leaving the team reportedly to seek treatment. the florida suns sentences sentinel is reporting that coaches had asked the 6'3"

lineman to toughen up his 300 pound teammate after martin skipped a voluntary practice. a marching order they say incognito took too far. joe philbin said on monday that he never knew about any hazing on the team. some dolphins teammates also deny seeing any obvious bullying. >> those pieces get looked over. there's so much going on. >> reporter: accord to go espn, martin plans to continue playing football. the dolphins have kept him on the team's roster and his teammates say he's welcome back. scott goldberg, abc news, new york. one more player in the news now. former denver broncos lineman john moffitt is walking away from the game. he started in the nfl with seattle but after half a season with denver he says he has lost his love for the game. moffitt is leaving more than a million dollars in salary on the table. he says he's going on to new things. >> that bribery scandal that's rocking the u.s. navy is now growing.

a third official has now been arrested in the case with large sums of cash, prostitutes and bribes. commander jose luis sanchez is accused of passing on information to a singapore based company which then used that information to overbill the pentagon. there are indications higher ranked officers could be swept up in the scandal. all right. another bribery scheme, this one involving a u.s. foreign service officer. they say michael sesdack rubber stamped fraudulent visa applications. he pleaded guilty and faces up to 24 years in prison. he also agreed to forfeit any profits from the crime, including nine properties in thailand. topping our health headlines this morning, children with autism are usually not diagnosed until they're at least two years old, but researchers now say the disorder may be detectible in the first few months of life. they're focusing on eye contact revealing the earliest clues of autism ever observed. here's abc's dr. richard besser. >> reporter: children with autism don't read emotions or

faces well, but how could a baby tell you that? watch where the baby's eyes go. at emory university eye tracking software show what this little guy is looking at. where the x is, that's his focus. >> what this study shows us is that there are changes already happening that wouldn't be detectible to the naked eye. >> reporter: they studied a group of 36 children starting at just two months old. three years later they found out which ones were diagnosed with autism. turns out that children with autism by six months old spent less and less time looking at the eyes. the bigger the change, the more profound the autism was. >> the earlier we diagnose, the earlier we intervene, the better the long-term outcome. >> reporter: previous research had used eye tracking software said babies take research from eyes. >> three different facial emotion, neutral, happy, and fear. >> reporter: we know older children with autism don't make eye contact.

now technology has given us a way to identify autism's earliest clues. i want to give a little caution and reassurance to parents out there. it's totally normal for a baby to be looking around the room and not always focusing on your face. this is a research tool. your doctor will screen your baby as he or she gets older with tests we know work for autism. for now this is something that holds promise but isn't ready to be used. dr. richard besser, abc news, new york. fascinating. to some business news starting on wall street where the dow opens this morning at a record high with its nearly 129 point gain yesterday. the dow knocks its 33rd record close of the year. up more than 20%. the s&p 500 starts today one point below its record. the big deal today for investors, the stock market sale of twitter. $26 a share. that gives twitter a market value of $18 billion and creates possibly three new billionaires and a bunch of multi-millionaires, all early

workers at the company. walmart is apologizing for offering rock bottom prices that were literally too good to be true. the retailer set off a buying frenzy on its website with computer monitors going for $9, tread mills at $20 and kayaks for 20 bucks. walmart has said it was a technical glitch and that is to blame and it is not going to honor those absurd bargains. instead customers who placed orders yesterday will get a measly $10 gift card. time to return that kayak. sorry about that. >> ten bucks? >> big changes are coming to an abercrombie & fitch near you. the struggling teen retailer plans to roll out larger sizes by the spring in hopes of attracting more customers. abercrombie's ceo had famously justified their lack of plus sizes by saying, quote, they're going after the cool kids. the company is changing its tunes now that sales and stock prices have plummeted. >> funny how that happens. starbucks planning to hire at least 10,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years. the jobs include working in

starbucks coffee stores, production warehouses and leadership roles. robert gates endorses the plan to help men and women who have served our country. >> hiring these extraordinary americans and having them enhance the company's culture is in the best interest of starbucks and its shareholders. >> starbucks is just the perfect fit for people who are looking for that family that they had in the military. >> coffee chain also plans to designate five cafes in military communities where a portion of their sales will be given back. now to a story that we're happy and proud to present. a big fund-raiser to benefit wounded veterans. the foundation started by our own bob woodruff after he was injured in iraq seven years ago was a beneficiary. >> one of the stars of the show was the boss, bruce springstein. put up his guitar for auction. it went for a quarter of a million bucks. >> the bidding kicked into high gear when he threw in a free guitar lesson and a chance to

sit in on a springstein recording session at his new jersey home. >> aha. >> now i understand. >> quarter million dollars for a guitar. what you're paying for is hanging out with the boss. >> yeah. you get a private lesson from the boss. that's about right. by the way, the event is part of the annual new york comedy festival. also there was jon stewart, jerry seinfeld and others. >> i bumped into springstein two times in my gym on the jersey shore. >> huge. coolest guy? >> coolest guy ever. >> yeah, he looks it. >> he is totally cool. coming up, how much sleep is too much sleep? what a question, especially at this hour, right? >> is that even a question? >> it is. all the toe tapping sing along performances at last night's cma awards. we're taking you to nashville. you're watching "world news now." ♪ ♪ >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by colonial penn life insurance. ance. ♪ ♪ ♪

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the debate overhead injuries the debate overhead injuries and football is kicking up a notch this morning with the news that former dallas cowboy tony dorsett has been diagnosed with signs of the incurable brain disease known as cte. >> the disease is linked to traumatic head injuries found in

more than 50 diseased nfl players. dorsett sat down with an in depth interview with espn. >> reporter: in his hall-of-fame career, tony dorsett experienced moments of glory. also, took blows to the head. the worst one, he says, was this violent hit in a cowboys/eagles game in 1984. >> it reminded me of a mack truck hitting a volkswagen. i mean, he just blew me up. >> did they call that a concussion? >> no, they called that a knockout. >> dorsett says he doesn't know how many concussions he suffered during his 12 years in the nfl, but he says they were numerous, and he still deals with the consequences. >> my memory is getting worse and worse as every day goes by.

my short temperedness, i'm very short tempered. it gets worse. >> at his lowest moments, dorsett says he has thought about suicide. >> yeah, i've thought about crazy stuff, sort of like, why do i need to keep continue going through this. i mean, i'm too -- too smart of a person, i like to think, to take my life, but it's crossed my mind. >> reporter: neurosurgen julian bales is part of a medical team that says it's devised a brain scan to identify signs of cte in a living person. dorsett is one of nine retired nfl players to take the test conducted at ucla. results are in for eight and all have been diagnosed with signs of cte, including hall-of-famer, joe delamolore and former all pro leonard marshall.

>> until we can diagnose it in the living, we had no hope of intervening or treating them or knowing if it was getting worse or even knowing if it's a progressive disease, but i have to stress, our numbers are small. this has to be considered preliminary data, and we look forward to accruing more examples and more testing. >> yes, i want to know if this is something that's come about because of playing football. it frustrates me. i get frustrated. i look at myself. you just in a shell. you not -- you not -- you not anthony tony dorsett. you're not him anymore. who are you? who are you becoming? people are saying, i challenge myself, who are you becoming, man? a veggie. >> that's tough to watch.

>> a hero of mine and he's not himself, clearly. >> you can see it. >> oh, yes. >> cte is a protein that surrounds the brain and it starts affecting every part of your body. you become like he said a shell of who you are. >> found in football players as young as 17 years old. scary stuff. >> hard to hear for a parent who's starting to think about putting their kids in that sport. >> no doubt about it. coming up, a big night for country music. 47th annual country music awards. ahead in the next hour, men who fathered dozens, even hundreds of children. they don't even know about them. the new ethical questions about sperm donors. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our abc stations.

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all right. the partying winding down in nashville this morning after country music's biggest night of the year. >> last night right here on abc, the cmas paid tribute to the pioneers and the new stars that are stretching the boundaries of what it means to be country. abc's marcy gonzalez has all of the good treats. good morning, marcy. >> reporter: good morning, john and diana. they're clearing away the red carpet here, and i'll bet some of those stars are still at the after partiys celebrating a really amazing night. country music's biggest night ♪ baby you're a song, you make me want to roll my window down ♪ living up to its promise. from host brad paisley and carrie underwood to one unforgettable performance. ♪ ♪ >> after another. ♪ 6 ♪ ♪ >> the 47th annual cma awards

rocked music city with its sounds and stars bringing home top honors. the first award for single of the year going to newcomer georgia water. the duo beaten out for new artists of the year lifetime achievement award going to kenny rogers and the stars pausing to remember the late george jones. some also lining the stage celebrating taylor swift as she became only the second artist ever to be given the pinnacle award. >> thank you. thank you. i love you. you have made me feel so special right now. thank you. >> the night closing out with female vocalist. >> miranda lambert. >> to my husband, i love you. thanks for putting up with my crap. >> and male vocalist of the year. >> yeah, come on, blake. come on over here. >> and, finally, abc's robin roberts presenting the

entertainer of the year award. >> george strait. >> there wasn't one artist who really cleaned house tonight, but talk about a power couple. this is the fourth year in a row for miranda lambert and her husband, blake shelton, winning female and male vocalist of the year. pretty incredible. john and diana, back to you. >> happy household there. marcy, thank you. brings us to our facebook question of the day. >> who is your favorite country music star and why? log on to wnnfan.com and let us know. it was quite a night. one of the highlights was kenny rogers taking the stage. we all know he can belt it out still, but just to hear it all over again. >> oh, yeah. >> the house was roaring. >> absolutely. the hosts were fantastic. really entertaining. they say they should host the oscars. >> you were good, too. very modest. >> you looked great as brad paisley. the hat is great. >> really?

coming up. a comeback kid in basketball after an injury that could have kept him sidelined for good. after an injury that could have kept him sidelined for good. back kid in basketball that could have kept him sidelined for good.

next time, what a comeback story here. louisville's kevin ware, baseball player, injured in the ncaa last year. >> what an injury. >> blew out his leg. if you're not familiar with the name, you will be familiar with the video and the images. they were all over tv. everybody wondered if this guy could ever come back. it was such a gruesome injury. you literally saw his leg snap. it was really profound stuff. >> the bone came out. >> yes. it was horrific. he was all over the national media. well, anyway, he entered an exhibition contest now 220 days after that making his first three-point shot. >> wow. >> against pikeville. he finished with six points, four rebounds in ten minutes. folks, he's back. >> nice. >> once i hit the first shot, it took away all the jitters. ware says he expects his entire family to be in louisville for

the season opener. he says, i can build on this. i'm hoping i can get out there and show people i can be the same player before the injury. awesome young man. we wish him luck. >> i kind of remember him saying when he got injured, i'll be back. >> a lot of people said, i hope so. >> bone sticking out of your leg. take a look at him now. moving on to this. one of lululemon's founders is on the hot street. in a bloomberg interview he seemed to imply that the lululemon yoga pants are not for every woman. you may remember that they were so sheer that they had to be pulled off of shelves. >> what's the problem? >> exactly. everybody saying the exact same thing when we did that story months ago. >> yeah, well. >> the biggest problem for lululemon is they don't carry bigger sizes, they often don't restock the bigger sizes that they do carry so a lot of bigger women have complained about that. then we had the sheer situations. the guy's name is chip rosen. he was doing the interview with

his wife by his side. he said, frankly, some women's bodies just don't actually work. >> blaming it on the women. >> blaming it on the women's body. it's really about the rubbing through the thighs. how much pressure is there over a period of time, how much they use it. his wife, by the way, tried to give a nicer or more piecy explanation. the interviewer said, wait a minute, not all women can wear lululemon pants, it's how you use it. don't sit on a cement floor and it won't be sheer. >> his wife to the rescue. take the foot out of your mouth. >> there's a reason he had to step down by the way and now he's just a manager. i don't quite get this. too much sleep can actually be bad for you folks. new research indicating too much sleep can be just as harmful as not getting enough. some people suffer from the latter. take a nap, i'll finish this. that looks amazing. apparently accord to go web md, the amount of sleep a person needs depends on age, activity level and lifestyle. >> i don't believe it for a second. i feel better already. >> too much is bad from you.

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this morning on "world news now," explosive allegations in the nfl. accusations of harassment and bullying among miami dolphins teammates, and new developments overnight about the alleged victim on the team. cracking down on lawmakers. a lawmaker who has made it her mission to stop sexual assault in the military. her demands for change and the resistance she's getting. help us. a distress call for a couple stuck in the mountains for a week. nashville's biggest night. country music's brightest stars shining at the cma awards. the amazing winners, the hottest performances and the laughs on stage. it is thursday, november 7th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. good thursday morning. we start this half hour with the

storm about bullying swirling around the miami dolphins. >> sources are now saying that jonathan martin, the player who went public with his alleged tormenting, was considering quitting that team before he was bullied. >> meanwhile, teammates of martin and the nfl have suspended ritchie incognito claim they were friends. >> reporter: the accusations are so explosive the nfl commissioner called for a formal investigation. were miami dolphins coaches the ones encouraging veteran lineman ritchie incognito to toughen up second year offensive tackle jonathan martin. the harassment allegedly so severe espn is alleging that martin checked himself into a hospital for emotional distress. at a news conference he's saying joe philbin is defending the team. >> the type of culture that imi've championed since i walked through these doors has been one of honesty, respect and accountability to one another.

>> reporter: incognito has a well-earned reputation. in this video circulating from a south florida sports bar, his famous short fuse is on display. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: he's accused of tormenting the junior lineman with racial slurs and texts and voice mails and the dramas dividing the nfl. >> this game is already hard enough as it is. there is no room for bullying in this league. >> reporter: former head coach herman edwards says bullying has no place in the long locker room. >> i've never asked a player to toughen someone up. >> reporter: on sports radio came in bombshell about incognito from warren sapp. >> one time he kicked me in the game and called me the n-word and i looked at him and said, oh, you want me to punch you in the mouth. >> reporter: the dolphins quarterback said he was surprised the two had a beef. >> ritchie said, jonathan's like my little brother. i think that's an accurate depiction. he gave him a hard time, he messed with him but he was the first one there to have his back in any situation. >> reporter: tuesday incognito shared this with a miami television station. >> i'm just trying to weather the storm right now and this

will pass. >> jonathan martin's father came out saying his son is fine. >> he's a strong man. he's doing fine. >> reporter: martin is resting in california and prepping a full report for the nfl. abc news, atlanta. another troubling story with roots in the nfl. hall of fame running back tony dorsett has been diagnosed as having signs of a degenerative brain condition. dorsett starred with the dallas cowboys starting in the late '70s. he underwent brain scans two weeks ago and they found indications of the condition that scientists say is caused by head trauma and linked to dementia. dorsett tells espn that he has experienced memory loss, depression, and thoughts of suicide. >> and when you listen to him, you listen to him talk and you can almost see it in the way he speaks. >> you remember him. you remember him from the '70s. >> i remember the tony dorsett from my childhood who i looked up to. i remember seeing him on a ton of interviews. the man who talks in the interviews isn't the man he used to be. he says this much.

cte is unbelievable. first begins to impair part of the brain that controls the emotion and memory. it eventually spreads to overwhelm the brain. the brain shrinks to half its size in chronic cte. >> it starts to affect every single part of who you are. you become a shell of the man or person you were initially. already -- you know, you talk about this being linked to the concussions in the nfl, which is what everybody is saying. already 62 concussions have been reported in this season alone for the nfl. the good thing is they're trying to take a look at these things and if it's a concussion, it's reported as a concussion. they're not saying, you were knocked out, go sit down for five minutes and go back into the game. >> something has to give, right? >> yeah. >> two people have been killed after gunfire erupted inside a detroit barber shop. police say a group of men were playing dice, the door opened followed by a hail of bullets. ten people were injured. it was a gruesome scene even by detroit standards. the motor city is ranked second in the nation for murders and violent crime. somber moment at the los angeles airport as fallen tsa

officer gerardo hernandez is remembered. a special u.s. honor flag was flown in from texas. the flag will be used at hernandez' funeral. he was shot in the deadly rampage. tomorrow airports across the country will observe a moment of silence in honor of hernandez. a new jersey mall has reopened as police release dramatic 911 calls from the night of the shooting. thousands of terrified shoppers ran for cover at the sound of the gunshots. some of them forced to hide for hours. you can hear the fear in their voices as they called for help. >> 911. >> i'm at the garden state -- >> i can't hear you. what? >> somebody is shooting up garden state plaza. >> there's somebody shooting? >> somebody is shooting up garden state plaza right now. i'm in the bathroom. >> stay on the phone with me, sweetheart. how many people in the bathroom with you? >> three. >> are they in your store? >> yes. >> at the time they didn't know the gunman was on a suicide mission. 20-year-old richard shoop took

his own life and no one else's. there has been another arrest in this widening bribery scandal in the u.s. navy. a third individual has been arrested. it involves large amounts of cash, prostitutes and bribes. commander jose luis sanchez is accused of passing on information to a singapore-based company which then used that information to overbill the pentagon. there are indications higher ranked officers could be swept up in the scandal. the military is also under scrutiny for the way it handles sexual assaults within its ranks. most rapes are going unreported. so an effort is underway on capitol hill to move prosecution of the attacks outside of the military and top commanders are up in arms. here's abc's karen travers. >> reporter: senator kirsten gillibrand is making one final push in her fight for victims of sexual assault in the military. >> too often these brave men and women are in the fight of their life and it is not on some far off foreign soil, it's right within their own ranks with

their commanding officer as victims of horrific acts of sexual violence. >> reporter: the statistics are sobering. an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults in the military last year alone and surveys showed that 2/3 of female victims didn't report them. gillibrand's legislation would dramatically change the way the military handles these cases taking the judicial authority away from the chain of command. the top brass at the pentagon is staunchly opposed. military leaders argue they must be able to police their own ranks. >> command authority is the most critical mechanism for ensuring discipline, accountability and unit cohesion. >> reporter: but gillibrand says that hasn't worked out. >> there is no accountability because the trust that any justice is possible has been irreparably broken under the current system where commanders hold all the cards as to whether a case will move forward or not. >> reporter: arianna clay is a former marine, a naval academy graduate, and iraq war veteran.

she says she was raped by a senior marine officer in a trend in 2010. >> the retaliation was worse than the assault because it was sanctioned from the same leaders i once would have risked my life for. >> reporter: gillibrand's bill needs 60 votes to pass and right now 46 senators are on board. john and diana, a vote could come up sometime in the next three weeks. >> karen travers, thank you. it wasn't your usual trip to the terminal at chicago's o'hare airport for those on board a flight that had just arrived from new orleans. while taxiing yesterday the american eagle jet rolls nose first on to a grassy area. look at that. no one was hurt on that. the 42 people on the plane had to be bussed to the terminal. this morning the olympic torch launched into space. it is headed to the international space station. it will be taken on its first ever space walk. for safety purposes the torch will not be lit while in space. probably a good idea. >> very good idea. >> here's a look at your thursday forecast, windy with heavy downpours and mountain snow in the pacific northwest,

northern rockies chilly across the plains and great lakes. rain in the northeast. scattered showers from virginia to florida and along the golf coast. mostly 60s from dallas to atlan atlanta. 50s from seattle to portland. 85 in phoenix. okay. time for some youngsters clearly having a great time with each other. this happened at the zoo in tacoma, washington. >> that's 2-year-old marshall dressed up as a tiger for halloween. on the other side of the glass is the zoo's six-month-old tiger cub named callie. >> only six months. my goodness. marshall does a number of runs back and forth. callie seems too eager to run along. very cute is what it says in the teleprompter. it is cute. i'm wondering what the tiger is ? it's adorable. >> i'm wondering what the tiger is thinking. is he thinking breakfast or is he thinking let's play. >> i have a feeling neither one of these two youngsters had any idea what was going on or the danger, the imminent danger. i think they were having a good time. >> it is very cute. >> they look like twins. >> they do sort of. coming up, the likeness of

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♪ ♪ heroes can come in any form, and for one couple in yellowstone national park, their hero roared in on a snowmobile. >> a couple spent six bone chilling days in the wilderness trapped in some heavy snow before a good samaritan set out on his rescue. abc's alex perez has the story. >> reporter: it was the wrong turn that nearly killed them. mark and chris rathke driving on to a snow packed highway near cody, wyoming, not knowing it had been closed. >> we never saw any road closed signs. we never saw any barricades. >> all of a sudden we went from a little fresh snow to about a foot, foot and a half drift. >> reporter: their car got stuck. temperatures had plummeted below zero and daylight turned to night. >> it was getting pretty cold. getting hard to stay warm. >> that was october 28th.

their family reported them missing the following day. the 25-person team from the park county sheriff's department searched for three days on the ground and by helicopter but no luck. six excruciating days they huddled together putting on every piece of clothing they had, turning the car on just once every four hours and rationing the bread, water, half a jar of jelly that they had. >> i lost it. i spent actually most of the time we were up there shaking and crying. >> reporter: with hope fading, they decided to write letters to their families. >> just letting them know that i loved them. >> reporter: never imagining it would be facebook that would save their lives. donna barnet who runs a guest ranch with her husband todd saw the local newspapers facebook posts about the missing couple and alerted him. >> i didn't get much sleep that night thinking about it and so i was up early trying to get my snowmobile ready to go so i could go -- at least go look. >> reporter: todd set out to search for these strangers on his snowmobile. just one hour later they heard the roar of his engine. >> we were like --

>> reporter: todd insists he's no hero. >> i was just out to help somebody. i ain't -- i don't want a title or anything. i just -- i was just out there to help. >> reporter: but for mark and chris, he was the miracle they hoped for. alex perez, abc news, chicago. >> he found them. >> way to go, todd. >> his wife is the one that said, get out there and find these guys. >> cowboy route out of central casting, wasn't he. he looked really cool. >> by the way, they didn't have cell phone service which is why they were penning these notes to their family. they were cold and hungry. otherwise they had done a good job of keeping themselves healthy for six days. the police say they were lucky, also, that their car had fuel. they turned on -- >> thank god they rationed it for six hours. who would think you would be out there for six days. smart that they didn't leave it on. >> very smart. coming up, poking fun at dolly parton at the cmas. >> celebrating a superstar with a doll. that's coming up on "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now"

skinny." >> ai had big plans, i hadnow" my career path all planned out. while i was on a combat patrol in baqubah, iraq, a rocket-propelled grenade took my arm off at the shoulder. when i came home, i felt alone. my family was around me, but i couldn't talk to them about what i'd seen and what i'd done. i remember just thinking, man, the way i am right now, i don't want to live. i was discharged from the army, and i've been working with the wounded warrior project since 2007. warriors don't have to be severely wounded to be with the wounded warrior project. we do have a lot of guys that have post-traumatic stress disorder. being able to share your story, i guess it kind of helps you wrap your mind around what did happen over there. just because you've left the military doesn't mean your life is over, because when these guys are coming home, i'm kind of leading and training them, instead of for combat, i'm leading and training them to heal. and if i come away with anything from the wounded warrior project, it's them giving my life back. my name is norbie, and yes, i do suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, but i'm okay.

♪ skinny ♪ so skinny ♪ skinny ♪ so skinny welcome to "the skinny" everybody. we are starting with the talk of the town, the cmas, country music awards right here on abc last night. we have some highlights for you. here we go. we're starting off with the legend. she's a legend, carrie underwood.

this is just video of the actual show. we're going to get to it. the legend, george strait. he won entertainer of the night. that is the top award of the night. here's the thing though, he's won it three times. this is his third time winning it. the last time he won it was back in 1990. he was up against a lot of younger celebrities and, you know, singers, super stars, and they all went crazy when it was announced that he was the winner. i think they all kind of wanted him to win. >> yeah. >> he was a little stunned everybody else was pretty excited for him. then we're moving on to taylor swift. another highlight of the evening. she was awarded the pinnacle award. you have to realize, she's 23 years old. she's the youngest ever to win this award. she's also only the second person to get this award. >> isn't that an award you get when you're 65 in a rocking chair? >> they do something differently. she's the second person to win it. the other person to win it is garth brooks who has smashed records -- >> he's the third biggest seller of all time. >> nuts.

>> right. now she is also amongst this crowd of people who have won. garth brooks, the beetles so there you have it. there she is. and then we have the host. we have to talk about the hosts because they were hill layer rid. carrie underwood, brad paisley. this is their sixth time hosting this. the experts are saying, you've got to let them host the oscars because they're so good. >> fantastic. >> cmas are the oscars of country music. they're so incredibly wonderful. their comedic timing is wonderful. >> we would like to send our love tonight to dolly parton who is recovering from a little car accident a couple of weeks ago. she was treated and released from the hospital and thankfully dolly did have airbags. however, the ones in the car did not deploy. >> nicely done. >> dolly parton wasn't there because of the -- a minor fender bender. she was okay. it happened a few weeks ago. now to our very own robin roberts who was there to present the award to entertainer of the year. >> awesome.

>> who now we know is george strait. she looked incredible. >> she is buff man. >> look at those shoulders, those arms. she looks wonderful. there you have it. >> i want to go on the robin roberts exercise routine. my goodness. >> pump some iron. >> she looks fantastic. jennifer lopez is going plastic. not plastic surgery. really truly plastic. she's been immortalized in a pair of barbie dolls. comes courtesy of "us" magazine. the jennifer lopez world tour doll and the jennifer lopez red carpet doll. check it out. she showed a video on her instagram account. pretty cute. if you want to check it out. motion clips of her in her figure reason dancing and singing her song "get it right." >> very cool. i don't know, that's something that i would want to own. >> a doll? >> j. lo. >> we could probably get that done. we could get the diana perez "world news now" collection. >> i don't know about that. >> no? >> send you any old barbie with dark hair and claim it's me. >> now we wish we had graphics make a barbie out of you.

>> yes. if only. >> if only i can be ken. >> if only. you know what, you do look a little bit like ken. >> i've heard this before. >> i don't know about me being barbie though. eing barbie though. >> you do look a little bit like ken. >> i have heard that before. >> i don't know about me being barbie, though. >> i think so. . >> i think so.

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years. you do the math. one day years later he was contacted by a 14-year-old girl who told him that he was her father. >> my first reaction was just to be stunned. >> reporter: since then he's met three of his other donor offspring and has confirmed a dozen altogether. >> reporter: how do you know you don't have 50, 100, 150? >> i don't know. it's certainly possible. >> reporter: in fact, abc news has learned of at least five individuals who have aher over 100 children and one individual nearly 200 children. >> it's the wild west. there's essentially no she in town in this area which has become quite large, quite lucrative and livolst iate area of peolive >> reporterrie sperm donorn ha in the unitngdoit children can find their biological dad and his h history. >> in england and in most of onaope it's illegal hav

>> reporter: in the u.s more than 2 mil have b sperm, a website the donor sibling registry has been conneghemfat arsneghemfat >> i'm brianna. >> kyle. >> adriana and kyle found each other through that registry. >> no legal or social binding but it's half sister, that's cool. >> reporter: so far more than 10,000 connections with been made. todd whitehurst eventually met his daughter, virginia. >> we have a remarkable amount in common. >> it's surprising, really, it's like we're related or somethig. like we'ricaelated or somethig. ron claiborne, new york. here's a number for you. 30 to 60,000 children born in the u.s. every year are born via artificial insemination. >> staggering figure. you look at that one woman there. i guess h oty ny.?

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making news in america this morning -- a light show for millions overnight. a meteor that looked like a fireball, streaking across several states. taking everyone by surprise. also this morning, important, new research on autism. scientists now say they can pinpoint the disorder earlier than ever. and it's all in the eyes. plus, making way for america's heroes. the passengers who gave up their first-class seats for troops returning from the war. and country music honors its rising stars and living legends. the artists that took home the top awards and the songs that won the hearts of fans everywhere. good morning, everybody. we begin this thursday with new video.